Tournament Approving Guide!

There are two types of tournament formats created in the Tournaments room:1) Standard formats - Formats that are acknowledged by Smogon and have ladders on the server.2) User-created formats - Formats that are created by users and can only be hosted with the use of Challonge.

C&E (Catch & Evolve) General Rules:-Participants are randomly assigned starters (pre-evolved Pokemon mostly, but this rule is not applied for Legendary C&Es) which they'll use in the tournament. For every battle they win, they're given the options to "catch" one of their opponents' Pokemon and add it to their team and "evolve" any Pokemon from their current party.-Users may not join their own C&E tournaments, as they could give themselves extremely good Pokemon, making it unfair.-Max participant cap for C&E tournaments is 32 players and minimum is 8 players (the cap must be a number power of 2).-C&E banlist and variations can be found here: http://pstournaments.weebly.com/campe.html-Starters are to be generated by our generator; players may not choose their own starter.-It's up to the hosts to decide whether or not they want to ban the use of Mega Evolutions, Focus Sash, or Eviolite.

Survival General Rules:-Survival tournaments are to be hosted manually, as Challonge doesn't support team tournaments. Therefore, the host must create separate chats on external sites such as Chatzy for the teams to communicate.-Teams must not be exaggeratedly big, try to make it so there are 4-7 participants per team.-Hosts can't join their own Survival tournaments.-Hosts may not directly link the external chats used for both teams in the Tournaments room.-Each time, one person will be selected from each of the two teams to represent their teams in a battle of a chosen tier.-Players who lost their matches must be eliminated from the team.-This continues until either one of the two teams is still left standing, or until one player is left on each team, where they must battle each other to determine the “survivor” of the tournament.

Hunger Games General Rules:-Hosts may not join their own Hunger Games tournament since they are the ones giving out the Pokemon for the other teams.-Players will look for a partner to create "districts", and when every group knows their district, the host will post another document that contains the Pokemon that each district can use (12 Pokemon).-Each district will have 15 minutes to create teams using those 12 Pokemon (each Pokemon can only be used once).-Players then proceed to battle the other teams, and if you lose you are out!-If you beat your opponent you may "catch" one of his/her Pokemon and add it to your team.-You are free to team up with other 3 participants to take down the rest of the teams faster.-Friend Rule: You are not allowed to battle your partner or allies, except when everyone else got defeated.

Clash of the Gym Leaders General Rules: -Similar to the C&E tournaments, hosts may not join their own tournaments.-You may use your entire leader's team or you can choose 3 Pokemon and fill the remaining spots with any Pokemon OU and below.-Max participant cap for Clash of the Gym Leaders tournaments is 32 players, lower capacity must be a number power of 2 (4, 8, 16, 32).

Egg-cellent OU General Rules: -Your entire team must come from the same egg groups specified here-Other than that, it follows the same rules as any regular OU tournament.

Metronome General Rules:-These are the only tournaments that are allowed to be hosted in the Custom Battle format.-The only moved used must be Metronome.-There are no restrictions for the Pokemon or Item used.

General Approving Rules:-Always make sure users create a bracket for their tournament on challonge.com before you give them permission to host.-The participants limit for every tournament must be a power of 2 and a minimum of 8.-Users may advertise their streams only if they are streaming a tournament hosted through challonge, they aren't allowed to stream scripted tournaments. If they are not the hosts, then they need the host's permission to do so. -Make sure hosts don't advertise other servers/leagues in the tournament description.-In order to host a Challonge tournament, users need the approval from any user in the /roomauth (voices+).-Hosts may only post their tournament advertisement once the previous advert is no longer visible in the chat.-Hosts aren't allowed to make changes to the ban lists of any of the formats.-Double Elimination tournaments are allowed as long as the format used is acknowledged by Smogon and has its own ladder.-In-Game tournaments are not allowed in the Tournaments room.-In-Game prizes can only be given away by roomvoices (+); regular users are free to give away online gifts such as Steam/Amazon/iTunes, etc.-Shipping prizes is not allowed.-Depending on room activity, it's preferable if only one tour of each kind is being hosted.

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